When we speak of women in technology, the image that springs to mind is that of a woman programmer in the Silicon Valley, balancing work and home, putting in long hours, and yet not getting her due. The Distributed Denial of Women strike widens the discourse to include gender non conforming people and other diversities in the work place. As stated by Coraline Ada Ehmke - one of the key figures in the strike - your presence (as a woman, person of colour, gender non conforming, trans) can in itself be a powerful political statement.